Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match” where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It’s our great pleasure to present Suzanne Park!   Writes: I write contemporary romantic comedies with Korean American main characters who are not particularly suave or sexy, and are in fact pretty much the opposite, but you’ll root for them to get a happy ending. Have you ever had a dream where you need to take an exam for a class you never attended? Well…in my forthcoming comedic novel THE DO-OVER, Korean American career guide author Lily Lee finds out during an employee background check that she didn’t complete her college degree and has to return to college and relive her senior year ten years later. There, she finds out that one of her TAs is her old college boyfriend Jake Cho. What else could go wrong?   About: I’m a Korean Tennessean who lives in Los Angeles. I left LA after graduating from business school, then moved to Seattle. After eight years I decided I couldn’t handle the rain, and moved back to LA. I like being outdoors but…

“Welcome to the family!” Pop says, and we each raise our glasses again. The bubbles must tickle Alice’s nose, because she giggles. “What are your plans? Have you set a date yet?” Ma asks. I chuckle. “We haven’t even been engaged a full day yet.” It’s clear she’s thrilled, but give us at least a week to discuss it. And even in a week, we won’t have concrete plans. “Well, I’ve been thinking about this for a while,” Julian says. “So I have ideas.” I whip my head in his direction. Seriously? This perks Ma up even more. Julian fills everyone, including me, in on his plans. The ceremony will be held at that small, charming church on the other side of town, with lots of white roses, candlelight, and soft harp music. Everyone keeps a straight face at the mention of a harp. “Someone will recite a meaningful poem, perhaps Alice, and someone else will sing something meaningful but also uplifting. Gianna will look stunning, of course, in white, and I’ll wear a silver-gray tux.” “I can imagine it all,” Ma breathlessly says. “How lovely.” It’s something, alright. “There are several amazing spots for the reception, but I’m enamored…

Book Title: WHEN LAST SEEN: A Hunter and Tate Mystery Character Name: Ella Tate   How would you describe your family or your childhood? I grew up in Edmonton, Alberta with a younger brother, a stay-at-home mom and a father who worked in the oil fields. We were happy enough until an incident ripped our family apart when I was in my teens.   What was your greatest talent? My greatest talent is self-reliance. I left home with my brother at age seventeen after being disowned by our family. We moved across the country to Ottawa, Ontario, where I managed to earn a university degree while keeping us afloat.   Significant other? As Blind Date (first in the series) begins, I’ve just broken up with my live-in boyfriend, although we’d only moved in together six months before. Kind of a record for me.   Biggest challenge in relationships? I’m a loner at heart and staying in a relationship is always a challenge. Six months truly is my record.   Where do you live? I live in the cramped third floor of an old house in the Glebe neighbourhood. I’m not into owning possessions and furnished the place from the local…

1–What is the title of your latest release? A CRUISE FLING   2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book?  Fired, dumped, and evicted, Mackenzie Laurel recharges on a cruise, where a fling might just be what she needs to turn her life around.   3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place?  I’ve been on many cruises, so while on one I thought “this would be a great setting for a book!” I stuck with the Caribbean Islands, since that’s where I’ve visited the most.   4–Would you hang out with your heroine in real life?  Oh, totally! Beyond Mac being hard of hearing like me, I think we’d have a blast together!   5–What are three words that describe your hero? Cocky, withdrawn, sincere   6–What’s something you learned while writing this book?  Able bodied characters are overrated. I really enjoy writing disabled main characters and I find it lends a lot to my stories, because disabled characters deserve love, too.   7–Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally done? I fix up a few things here and there as I draft, but mostly I word-vomit and then clean…

Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match” where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It’s our great pleasure to present Korina Moss!   Writes: Perhaps you’ve done a cheese and wine pairing? Well, I pair cheese with murder mysteries. I write the Agatha Award nominated Cheese Shop Mystery series, a cozy series with puntastic titles like Cheddar Off Dead, Gone For Gouda, and Curds of Prey. My protagonist, cheesemonger Willa Bauer, firmly believes most of life’s problems can be solved with cheese, but can she apply that to murder? In my latest book, CURDS OF PREY, Willa’s caught in the middle of two powerful Sonoma Valley families at odds. She must walk a tightrope between the two to discover which one might be hiding a killer.   About: For the past several years, I’ve been on my own Eat, Pray, Love journey, which seems to have stalled at the Eat phase. Lucky for me, my profession requires me to research cheese. Following the prerequisite to being a cozy mystery author, I love cats, although I don’t have one at present. I’ll always choose travel…

1–What is the title of your latest release? A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S SCHEME 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? All the world’s a stage, but it may be curtains for bookbinder Quinn Caine’s brother if she can’t bring the lights down on an actor’s killer, in this latest cozy mystery. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? This whole series is a love letter to my adopted hometown, Vienna, Virginia. 4–Would you hang out with your sleuth in real life? There are two of them – a book lover and a rebellious nun – and I’d totally hang with them both. 5–What are three words that describe your sleuth? For Quinn? Observant, loyal, and evolving. For Sister Daria? Hilarious, irreverent, and lonely. 6–What’s something you learned while writing this book? Well, this nice Jewish girl learned all about the process of becoming a nun. Plus, I learned about book binding. 7–Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally done? I edit as I go. 8–What’s your favorite foodie indulgence? Foodie implies high end, but honestly a really good fried chicken is an underrated thing of beauty. As are fried pickles….

1–What is the title of your latest release? BEFORE WE WERE INNOCENT 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Bess and Joni’s lives are ripped apart when their friend Evangeline dies on their dream vacation in Greece, the summer after they graduate high school. The nightmare continues when the two girls are arrested following her death and, as the world’s media turns their attention on them, they find that they’re judged not only for this one night but for every choice they’ve made leading up to it. Now, ten years later, Bess and Joni are back in California and no longer speaking, but the past threatens to catch up with them both when Joni appears out of the blue asking Bess for a favor… 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? I started writing it during another grim winter lockdown in London when I was dreaming of Greece – the ocean and sun and the clean whites and blues of the towns. The book is set between the Greek Islands in 2008 and Malibu in 2018, and despite the exotic locations there is a creeping sense of claustrophobia in both timelines. 4–Would you hang…

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Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match” where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It’s our great pleasure to present Aliyah Burke!   Writes: Aliyah Burke writes a bit of almost everything. She loves a happily ever after and all of her books will have them. She pens honest characters who she loves to put through the wringer before allowing them to get to said HEA. They may hold unique jobs and have quirks, but the main thing is, she loves to show everyone deserves love, hence the HEAs!   About: International and USA Today Best-Selling author Aliyah Burke is first and foremost a reader. She is almost always found with a book in her hand. Although, she can be bribed away with promises of chocolates and promises of shenanigans. She writes books that will always have HEAs and cover the gamut of historical, paranormal, cozy, and of course, romance. She’s a Navy wife, dog mom, controller of many things at a vet clinic and potentially a book hoarder (depending on who you ask).   My ideal reader match for my latest release, SWEET SPOT FOR LOVE, needs…

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